I was on team Hillary Clinton ever since she announced she began running. Sure, I am disappointed that she didn’t win the election, but the thing that I am most disappointed about is how this election has divided us. In human nature, we have to debate. Our founding fathers were honorable men, and they didn’t create the electoral college to divide us. What has turned into a topic of discussion has turned into a full on war between us, a fire spitting out poison, hitting everyone of us even if you try to avoid it. In the past, we only took a small sip of this poison, because it just gives you that little bit to make you hate the other party, but this year instead of taking a small sip, we all took a river of the poison.
In seventh grade english, we choose a topic that we would like to write about and how we approach it. I choose the topic on how ‘Should Democrats and Republicans Work Together?” back then, my answer would’ve been no, because democrats and republicans have too much hatred, but now I know it’s different, it’s not the hate in the two parties, it’s the fear between the two parties.
Looking at data collected from people of both parties, the majority of them are afraid of each other, saying that the other beliefs and viewpoints will destroy America. We have forgotten what has made us America, but we know what makes us ‘Democrat’ or ‘Republican, and ‘Independent’.
Me writing this to you wasn’t here to patronize you, because I am just as equally as in fault here as the rest of you- I have also gone to far over my limits, and I have said and done stuff I regret saying, I am not a composed person, and I still act recklessly and childishly. Even though maybe writing this was an act of maturity, depending on how you take it, I will still be that reckless, composed and childish person and will change only in my own time.
Conversely, as cliché as this sounds, you are also your own person and you are the only person that can decide, when and what to change.
So let’s forget Republican and Democrat, us and them.
Let’s take off our “I Voted” stickers, and wave the star spangled banner in the air instead of our “Make America Great Again” hats or “I’m with her” banners.
And focus on what we all have in common.
We are all American.
And this is still America, home of the brave, and land of the free.
-C